Dr. Bates has over 20 years of professional experience in human resource & organization
development. He has a long and growing record of service highlighted by the provision
of leadership and technical expertise to assist local and international public and
private sector organizations. These activities have bridged a range of human resource
and organization development projects in Louisiana, the U.S., the Pacific Region,
Africa, and the Caribbean including workforce and human resources for health planning, organizational
performance analysis, competency modeling and job analysis, process mapping and re-engineering,
training needs analysis, team skills analysis, and program evaluations. He is an
award-winning researcher with an extensive line of applied research examining training
effectiveness and the management of learning transfer in organizations.